Author Archives: Steve Willis
Anti-Catholic? Some people, after reading some of my blog articles, might get the impression I am anti-Catholic. Others might go so far as to accuse me of being divisive, promoting schism within the Body of Christ by calling out the Catholic Church on their issues, saying we Protestants need to play nicey-nice with them in the name of… Read More »
Committed Christ-followers and pew-warming pietists alike have been reciting the Lord’s Prayer for literally over 2,000 years. Anyone who has hung around any church or organization calling itself “Christian” for even a few minutes has at least heard it and many have it memorized. Tragically, over those 2 millennia, the Lord’s Prayer has become, for many church-goers, a… Read More »
When I taught on prayer awhile back and proclaimed there are models taught in the Bible on how to pray, one of those present challenged me, demanding, “You mean to say we have to pray a certain way or we won’t get our prayers answered!?” To which I replied, “No, because that would be a legalistic recipe of… Read More »
I’m taking a second break away from my prayer series to write something God has put on my heart. Or as Monty Python used to say, “And now for something completely different!” And no, we’re not talking about home laser body-hair removal devices for sale on TV (Order now!!! Operators are standing by!!! 😊) Very recently, I had… Read More »
I just celebrated my 60th birthday along with my brother-from-another-mother/brother-in-Christ, Pete Parise and his wife Deb, as well as my beautiful wife Tess. Pete and Deb have been my closest friends for almost 40 years now, so it was an awesome birthday present to see them again. It was also Pete’s 58th birthday because he is 2-years-to-the-day younger… Read More »
The Four Ps Almost 40 years ago, right after I first got saved, I read a book entitled The Purpose of Temptation by Bob Mumford, one of the leaders of the Charismatic Movement during the 1970s. In that book, he described a process found throughout Scripture that he termed “The Four Ps,” an acrostic that describes God’s dealings… Read More »
Faith, Not Sight For we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7 …being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]. Hebrews 11:1b AMP This refines our concept of faith even further. Faith believes God’s Word despite what… Read More »
Faith Defined Just about every Christian theologian can agree the following verse in the Book of Hebrews defines the concept of “faith:” Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 As with almost all of my Scripture quotes, this one is from the New King James Version. Unfortunately, this… Read More »
